Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
7848
Building Number
2  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
11/03/1981  
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996  
Name of Property
Trustees Savings Bank  
Address
2 Severn Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Welshpool  
Town
 
Locality
Welshpool  
Easting
322545  
Northing
307472  
Street Side
N  
Location
Next to the Royal Oak Hotel.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: Purpose-built as the Welshpool and Montgomery Savings Bank and dated 1863. Prior to its construction, the bank had operated from a room in the Town Hall. It is now the Trustee Savings Bank. Description: Brick with smooth rendered lower storey and dressings. Slate roof on boldly projecting eaves, with gable end stacks, brick with moulded stone caps. 2 storeys, with high upper storey; 3-window range, the central bay in the upper storey slightly advanced. Doorway to left, with double doors of 3 moulded panels below overlight. 2 sash windows to right. String course over ground floor, and a narrower sill band to the 3 upper windows, which have recessed panelled aprons between the 2 bands, and are 4-pane sashes with finely gauged brick heads. Central window is brought forward in an architrave with entablature hood, and has a balustraded balcony projecting on moulded corbels which are lettered 'Savings Bank' on their outer faces. Deep frieze over the first floor is inscribed with fine lettering 'Savings Bank 1863'. Projecting cornice. 2 storeyed narrow extension to the right has 6-panelled doorway. An excellent, well-preserved example of a purpose-built bank. Reference: Robert Owen, Some Descriptive Notices of the Town and Suburbs of Welshpool, 1902, p.11.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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